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01-10-2012 | Original Article

Support for tobacco control interventions: do country of origin and socioeconomic status make a difference?

Authors: Karen Moore, Ron Borland, Hua-Hie Yong, Mohammad Siahpush, K. Michael Cummings, James F. Thrasher, Geoffrey T. Fong

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 5/2012

Abstract

Objective

To examine the attitudes to various tobacco control regulations among smokers from four different countries and explore differences by country and socioeconomic status.

Methods

Questions relating to tobacco regulation were asked of adult smokers from the 2007–2008 International Tobacco Control Four Country Survey (ITC4). Measures included attitudes to tobacco industry and product regulation, and measures of socioeconomic status and economic disadvantage.

Results

Overall smokers supported greater regulation of the tobacco industry with least supportive US smokers and most supportive Australian smokers. Reporting smoking-related deprivation and a lower income was independently associated with increased support for regulation of the tobacco industry (both p ≤ 0.01).

Conclusions

Policy-makers interested in doing more to control tobacco should be reassured that, for the most part, they have the support of smokers, with greatest support in countries with the strongest regulations. Smokers economically disadvantaged by smoking were more supportive of government policies to regulate the tobacco industry suggesting that reactance against regulation is not likely to differentially contribute to lower cessation rates in this group.

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Title: Support for tobacco control interventions: do country of origin and socioeconomic status make a difference?
Authors: Karen Moore
Ron Borland
Hua-Hie Yong
Mohammad Siahpush
K. Michael Cummings
James F. Thrasher
Geoffrey T. Fong
Publication date: 01-10-2012
Publisher: SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 5/2012
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-012-0378-5

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